Gore Vidal (146 page)

p. 694
:
“our Tahiti”
: GV/Halfpenny, 12/nd/1976; “We may be back”: GV/Joe O'Donohue, 7/5/1976.

p. 694
:
“I admire the essays”
: Diana Phipps/GV, nd/1977. W.

pp. 695
–
96
:
“DOCTORS AT LACKLAND”
: Robert Schnabel/GV, 3/4/1978. W; “How ridiculous”: Nina Gore/GV, 12/6/1975. W; “shocked and amazed”: Nina Gore/Nina Auchincloss, 6/3/1976. W.

p. 697
:
“Of course at the time it was”
: Nina Gore/GV, 5/19/1974. W; “mother love … about me”: Nina Gore/
Time
, 3/8/1976. W.

p. 698
:
“Nice to see your mother's”
: GV/Nina Auchincloss, 3/nd/1976.

Chapter Eighteen

INTERVIEWS: Mickey Knox, 3/30/1996; Norman Mailer, 3/15/1996, 3/16/1996, 3/17/1996; Howard Austen, 1/17/1996, 1/20/1996, 7/9/1996, 7/11/1996, 7/12/1996, 7/24/1996; Jason Epstein, 4/25/1995, 3/26/1997; Dick Cavett, 11/13/1996; Owen Laster, 2/25/1996, 3/5/1996, 3/22/1996; Lulli Corsini, 11/23/1997; Barbara Epstein, 7/15/1995, 7/26/1995; Jay Allen, 4/2/1996; Hugh Guilbeau, 4/13/1996; Jay Allen, 4/2/1996; Norman Podhoretz, 3/26/1998; Judith Calvino, 11/25/1997; Max Rabb, 5/29/1996; Claire Bloom, 2/23/1996; Judith Halfpenny, 11/5/1994.

ENDNOTES

p. 700
:
“Yes … Norman is every bit”
: GV/Jim Tuck, 8/29/1975.

p. 700
:
“on what I thought”
: Anthony Haden-Guest, “The Vidal-Capote Papers, A Tempest in Camelot,”
New York
, 6/11/1979, 54; “gossip … that is Capote's field”: GV/Judith Halfpenny, 12/nd/1976.

p. 702
:
“It would seem”
:
GV/The Atlantic Monthly
, 5/nd/1972.

p. 703
:
“was gathering affidavits”
: Donald Windham,
Lost Friendships
, 119–20.

pp. 703
–
4
:
“sad and bitter”
: GV/Halfpenny, 7/nd/1978; “had gotten him drunk”:
Lost Friendships
, 128; “but the letters are marvelous”: GV/Halfpenny, 7/nd/1968; “it's all actionable … actionable”:
Lost Friendships
, 128; “encounter with Gore … just talk”:
Lost Friendships
, 119–20; “Mr. Capote never wrote … on TV”: GV/Halfpenny, 9/nd/1979.

p. 705
:
“Vidal's enemies delightedly”
: Arthur Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
, Boston: 1978, 594; “were just two fags … upset”: GV/Halfpenny, 9/nd/1979.

pp. 705
–
6
:
“We are willing to settle”
: GV/Halfpenny, 12/nd/1979; “No matter what”: GV/Halfpenny, 9/nd/1979.

pp. 706
–
7
:
“I apologize for any”
: Truman Capote/GV, 10/31/1983. W; “T. seemed not to be drinking”: GV/Paul Bowles, 4/30/1984, D; “I knew he would be”: GV/Bowles, 9/nd/1984. D.

p. 707
:
“As someone said when”
: GV/Bowles, 9/nd/1994. D.

p. 710
:
“Poor Norman”
: GV/Ned Bradford, 1/nd/1977. LB.

pp. 711
–
12
:
“we won't have a full”
: Norman Mailer/GV, 11/20/1984. W; “Our feud, whatever … fond of you”: Mailer/GV, 11/20/1984. W; “If he had so much as . . . boredom”: GV/Bowles, 11/nd/1984. D.

p. 712
:
“Do you have someone”
: Mailer/GV, 1/17/1985. W; “All right, fine”: Mailer/GV, 2/13/1985. W; “the example of”: Mailer/GV, 3/14/1985. W.

p. 713
:
“We may both be known”
: Mailer quoted in Drew Featherston, “The Feud Is a Fizzle,”
Newsday
, 11/20/1995.

pp. 718
–
19
:
“I have made five”
: GV/Halfpenny, 3/nd/1979; “It is apt, certainly … he is
not”:
GV/Halfpenny, 3/nd/1979; “you don't need”: Jason Epstein/GV, 8/21/1979. W; “trudging up”: GV/Halfpenny, nd/1979.

p. 719
:
“The sindaco would like”
: GV/Halfpenny, nd/1979.

p. 722
:
“I do value more”
: GV/Richard Poirier, 8/nd/1982.

pp. 722
–
23
:
“
Duluth
emerges”
: GV/Halfpenny, 8/9/1984; “to be”: Italo Calvino, 9/24/1983: as “Imagining Vidal” in
Gore Vidal, Writer Against the Grain
, ed. Jay Parini, NY: 1992, 31–36.

p. 725
:
“not existed in his”
:
US
, 610.

pp. 727
–
28
:
“A fine American story”
: GV/John Mitzel, 8/19/1978; “The
New York Review
turned down”: GV/Halfpenny, 8/nd/1981.

p. 728
:
“I would suggest”
:
US
, 597, 611.

p. 729
:
“In the German concentration”
:
US
, 597–98.

p. 732
:
“Does one want to win”
: GV/Halfpenny, 8/nd/1981.

p. 733
:
“I am sauntering … contributions yet”
: GV/Halfpenny, 8/nd/1981.

p. 733
:
“I'm now about to be”
: GV/Mitzel, 2/16/1982.

p. 734
:
“This has to be worth”
: Vidal Sassoon/GV, 4/12/1982. W.

pp. 736
–
37
:
“one morning last spring”
:
US
, 1184; “Generally, I don't care for”: GV/Halfpenny, 12/nd/1979.

pp. 737
–
38
:
“L. is our Bismarck”
: GV/Halfpenny, 1/nd/1980; “First I must know”: GV/Peter Davison, 8/nd/1981. W.

p. 741
:
“You've led a very”
: GV/Halfpenny, 8/nd/1986; “I boasted to Bowles”: GV/Auchincloss, 9/nd/1986.

p. 745
:
“Last days can be”
: GV/Halfpenny, 6/nd/1977.

p. 746
:
“I must ask myself”
: Italo Calvino/speech at Vidal's honorary-citizenship ceremony in Ravello, 10/3/1983. W.

p. 747
:
“Do you notice”
: GV/Bowles, 9/nd/1984. D; “all right for someone”: GV/Bowles, 8/nd/1978. D.

p. 749
:
“the Q. Mother had just”
: GV/Halfpenny, 12/1/1983.

p. 751
:
“I can't say I much”
: GV/Wilcomb Washburn, 11/16/1982.

pp. 751
–
52
:
“He lay in a hospital … memory land”
: GV/Halfpenny, 5/nd/1984; “How curious that”: GV/Bowles, 12/nd/1983. D.

pp. 752
–
53
:
“can't say that the bird”
: GV/Woods S. Gray, 7/21/1983; “has decided to be”: GV/Bowles, 10/nd/1984. D; “as he was dying”: GV, “Introduction,”
Where Joy Resides, A Christopher Isherwood Reader
, ed. Don Bachardy and James P. White, xviii–xviv.

pp. 753
–
54
:
“Have you been keeping up”
: GV/Bowles, 8/31/1983. D; “I'm happy with the preface”: Bowles/GV, 4/13/1978. W; “The Rat continues to die”: GV/Halfpenny, 12/1/1983; “the size of a tennis ball … survive us”: GV/Halfpenny, 5/nd/1984.

p. 754
:
“He was having more trouble”
: GV/David Herbert Donald, 12/15/1988. W.

p. 755
:
“witnessing his own”
:
US
, 506.

Chapter Nineteen

INTERVIEWS: Jason Epstein, 4/25/1995, 3/26/1997; Tom Rosenthal, 1/21/1996; Owen Laster, 2/29/1996, 3/5/1996, 3/22/1996; Gary Fisketjon, 2/18/1997; Jay Parini, 1/14/1999; Judith Calvino, 11/25/1997; Wallace Ragan, 6/12/1995; John C. Davis, 6/13/1995; Barrett Prettyman, 11/2/1994; Ruth Sewell, 4/15/1997; Howard Austen, 1/17/1996, 1/20/1996, 7/9/1996, 7/11/1996, 7/12/1996, 7/24/1996; George Armstrong, 9/5/1994; Barbara Epstein, 7/15/1995, 7/26/1995; Andreas Brown, 10/18/1996

ENDNOTES

p. 756
:
“White frame houses”
: GV/Judith Halfpenny, 8/9/1990.

p. 757
:
“sharp of eye”
: GV/Halfpenny, 8/8/1990.

p. 758
:
“I did have an eerie”
: GV/Halfpenny, 8/8/1990.

p. 759
:
“I'm not going to write”
: GV/Halfpenny, 10/15/1985.

p. 760
:
“I'm getting very autobiographical”
: GV/Halfpenny, 5/8/1985; “Most of May-June”: GV/Halfpenny, 5/nd/1984.

pp. 760
–
61
:
“It is a picture book”
: GV/Halfpenny, 5/8/1985; “a lot of work”: GV/Halfpenny, 1/4/1984; “ready to be enslaved”: GV/Halfpenny, 5/8/1985.

pp. 761
–
62
:
“Cimino has made no”
: GV/Halfpenny, 8/nd/1986; “Cimino sent me Shagan's”: GV/Grace Reiner, Writers Guild of America, West, 10/16/1986. W.

p. 763
:
“Thanks to Chernobyl”
: GV/Claire Bloom, 6/28/1986.

p. 764
:
“from a street in Moscow”
: GV/Halfpenny, 4/nd/1987.

pp. 764
–
65
:
“the usual loyal party … if not with us”
: GV/Halfpenny, 4/nd/1987.

p. 765
:
“All sorts of changes”
: GV/Halfpenny, 4/nd/1988.

p. 766
:
“white slender with pale”
: GV/Halfpenny, 4/nd/1988.

p. 771
:
“Obviously, I am not charmed”
: GV/Owen Laster, 6/1/1990. W.

pp. 774
–
75
:
“As you know or do not”
: GV/Richard Poirier, 6/5/1992; “I fear as fond as I am”: GV/Halfpenny, 10/nd/1991.

pp. 775
–
76
:
“My Barbara grows … does not”
: GV/Halfpenny, 5/nd/1991.

p. 776
:
“a prize at Forte”
: GV/Halfpenny, 8/9/1990.

p. 778
:
“I know what I'd like”
: GV/David Herbert Donald, 10/1/1990.

p. 779
:
“Unaccustomed as I am”
: GV/National Book Award, 11/nd/1993. W.

pp. 780
–
81
:
“Of course you're worried”
: Walter Clemons/GV, 12/6/1990. W; “After four years of meeting”: GV/Louis Auchincloss, 12/nd/1990; “The only revelation”: GV/William Phillips, 10/27/1993. W.

p. 781
:
“Walter maintains that he is”
: GV/Halfpenny, 10/nd/1991; “Walter will present Little, Brown”: GV/Janet Caro, 9/nd/1993.

p. 783
:
“Bringing back my dreadful”
: GV/Halfpenny, 8/20/1993; “I, too, explore the past”: GV/Ned Rorem, 9/11/1992.

p. 784
:
“The section on J.T.”
: GV/John Davis, 11/3/1993.

p. 785
:
“Two unnerving first-hand”
: GV/John Davis, 8/29/1993.

p. 786
:
“Disconcertingly, I had lunch”
: GV/Halfpenny, 8/20/1993.

p. 787
:
“The pool is paradise”
: GV/Claire Bloom, 6/18/1986.

p. 789
:
“Last night I dreamed”
:
M
, 73–74; “For nearly two years”: GV/Halfpenny, 8/6/1995.

p. 793
:
“Two close calls”
: GV/Rorem, 10/10/1996; “There is no end”: GV/Fred Kaplan, 12/14/1996.

pp. 793
–
94
:
“I do mean to go on”
: GV/Elizabeth Hardwick, 10/nd/1975. T; “I drank like a boy”: GV/Halfpenny, 10/nd/1991.

pp. 794
–
95
:
“One gets more done”
: GV/Halfpenny, 8/9/1990; “for the first time”: GV/Halfpenny, 5/nd/1984; “still worked out”: GV/Halfpenny, 12/24/1992.

Additional interviews: Rhodes Allan, 9/7/1996; Owen Carle, 3/13/1997; John Dickinson, 2/10/1996; William Fitzgerald, 2/nd/1997; Miles Gore, 9/11/1996; John Hallowell, 8/9/1997; Nicholas Haslam, 1/24/1996; John Macrae, 3/19/1996; Sue Mengers, 3/29/1996; Jan Mostowski, 11/1/1996; Mike Shaw, 1/24/1996.

Gore Vidal's paternal grandmother, Mrs. Felix Vidal, c. 1930.
(Courtesy of Margaret Sutton)